Microsoft Discloses Data Requests From Indian Government

New Delhi: India made 321 user data requests between January to June this year to software giant Microsoft (including Skype), which disclosed subscriber/transactional data for nearly 80 percent of those requests.

For entire 2012 calendar year, Microsoft including Skype had received 471 user data requests from India.

Microsoft's second law enforcement request report details the number of requests for data it received from law enforcement agencies globally and how it responded to them.

They also cover requests for data relating to all of Microsoft's online and cloud services.